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# Jaiminīya (Talavakāra) Brāhmaṇa 7.23

Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa 7.23

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23)

atha yauktāśvaṃ pariṣṭobhavadbahirnidhanaṃ bārhatam  
tasmādbārhate'hankriyate  
vasiṣṭho vai sudāsaḥ paijavanasyaikṣvākasya rājñaḥ purohita āsa  
sa sudāḥ paijavano vasiṣṭhe vaḷavānnyadhatta yathā purohite nidadhate tathā  
vasiṣṭhassaniṃ prayannabravīdyuktāśvaṃ kanīyāṃsaṃ bhrātarameteṣāṃ no bhāryāṇāmadhyakṣaḥ  
syā iti  
sa yuktāśvo rājavaḷavānāṃ śiśūñjātānviparyaharat  
ye kalyāṇā āsaṃstānātmane'kṛta  
ye pāpīyāṃsastānrājavaḷavāsu  
te tadanvabudhyanta śiśūnha jātānviparyahārṣīditi  
tamabādhanta --steno'syanṛṣiriti  
so'kāmayata śraddhāṃ vindeyopa mā hvayeranniti  
sa etatsāmāpaśyat  
tenāstuta

> Now, the Yauktāśva \[sāman\] has a preliminary stobha, an outside finale, and belongs to the Bṛhat.  
> Therefore it is performed on the Bṛhat day.  
> Vasiṣṭha was the domestic priest of King Sudās Paijavana, the Aikṣvāka.  
> That Sudās Paijavana deposited mares with Vasiṣṭha, as \[kings\] deposit with a domestic priest.  
> Vasiṣṭha, setting out on an acquisition tour, said to his younger brother Yuktāśva: "You must oversee these animals of ours."  
> That Yuktāśva swapped the newborn foals of the king's mares:  
> those that were handsome he kept for himself;  
> those that were worse \[he placed\] among the king's mares.  
> They found out about it: "He has swapped the newborn foals."  
> They harassed him: "You are a thief, not a ṛṣi."  
> He desired: "May I find faith, may they summon me."  
> He saw this sāman.  
> With it he chanted praise.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p1)

sa o i jvaretyeva nidhanamupait

> He went to the finale: "o i jvare".  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p2)

tato vai sa śraddhāmupahavamavindata

> Then indeed he found trust \[and\] invitation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p3)

śraddhāṃ vindāmahā iti satramāsate

> "May we find trust," \[thinking\] thus they sit for a sacrificial session.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p4)

śraddhāmeva vindante

> They indeed find trust.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p5)

etaddha vai vācassatyaṃ yad

> This indeed is the truth of speech, namely:  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p6)

o i jvare

> "o i jvare"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p7)

ti

### [7.23.p8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p8)

jvaretīva ha vai cācassatyam

> As "jvare" is indeed the truth of speech.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p9)

satyena vai sa tadvācaśśraddhāmupahavamavindata

> By means of the truth of speech, he then found trust \[and\] invitation.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p10)

śraddhānīyo bhavati | vindata upahavaṃ ya evaṃ veda

> Trustworthy he becomes, he finds an invitation, who knows thus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p11)

tadu prajaniṣṇu paśavyaṃ sāma

> And this sāman is generative, possessing cattle.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p12)

o i jvare

> "o i jvare"  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p13)

ti nidhanaṃ bhavati

> —this is the finale.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p14)

ajyata iti paśuṃ pravīyamāṇamāhuḥ

> "He is anointed (ajyate)," so they say of cattle being impregnated.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

### [7.23.p15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.7.23.p15)

ajvarā hāsya paśavaḥ prajaniṣṇavo bhavanti ya evaṃ veda

> Free from fever (ajvarāḥ) and generative indeed become his cattle, who knows thus.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya~en-mt.7.23) — English, machine translation

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